This research aims to investigate the sensorial insights and the aesthetic experience related to services, relationships, environments, communication strategies and spaces, all designed for Design for Social Innovation, highlighting the process and the outcomes.
DSI deals with all that design branches can do to promote and support social changes towards sustainability. Such processes are usually typified by a strong dematerialization of the design object itself, focusing on a relational and dialogical perspective.
Alongside, Applied Aesthetics, starting with the specific sense of Everyday Aesthetics, which brings off the analysis of actions and functions rather than just the pleasurable experience generated by contemplation we will expand the analysis to other fields of studies. Based on the research conducted so far on several scales by the members of ADESSO, DSI still lacks an aesthetics-driven structured design discourse. Such a gap outlines the domain we intend to investigate further throughout a cross-sector approach between design and aesthetics.
• How can Aesthetics contribute to envision more effective and pleasurable human-centered designs, impacting on the different phases of the design process, as well as on the outcomes?
• How does applied Aesthetics impact on the Identification and Desirability process of the design object?
• How can Design and Aesthetics launch a novel discourse and set up a model of action and intervention in terms of Sustainability?